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Health May 15

Racial segregation may raise blood pressure among African Americans, study says

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez, Kaiser Health News

Health Mar 04

Dr. Olveen Carrasquillo (L), Chief of General Internal Medicine University of Miami, sits with Juan Gonzalez as he conducts a checkup on him at the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine, as the United States House Republicans in Washington, DC were poised to approve a bill repealing the health care law that last year was signed into law overhauling the U.S. health care system on January 18, 2011 in Miami, Florida. Dr. Carrasquillo said that anyone that wants to roll back the gains made by the overhaul of the health care law should spend one morning in a public hospital and you would not want to repeal the bill. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
If you avoid these 3 risk factors, scientists can count how many healthy years you’ll add

For the first time, scientists have quantified how many heart failure-free years you add to your life if you avoid risky habits that harm your body and contribute to chronic illness.

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An Emergency Room View of Inner-City Health

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How Did Processed Food Take Over the American Meal?

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Foundation Channels $500 Million Toward Childhood Obesity

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, one of the country's largest public health foundations, announced that it plans to spend $500 million to fight childhood obesity. The foundation's president outlines the program.

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